MOTHER TERESA

1979 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity

Excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to
receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the
homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those
people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout
society, people that have become a burden to the society and are
shunned by everyone."